Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 13:10:47 -0800 (PST)
From: Chris Hagin
Subject: Cobb County Declared Hate Center
This past week a hate and klan monitoring group declared Cobb County,
Georgia a headquarters for hate activity. The Atlanta Committee for the
Olympic Games has announced that Cobb County will host part of the
Olympics in 1996. The Cobb County Commission last year passed a
resolution condemning glb lifestyle. Many Cobb County hotels will become
rich due to the Olympic business. Some residents of Cobb has made it
clear Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Jewish and Africian athelets will not be
welcome in Cobb County.
The hate monotoring group blames the Cobb County Commission's anti-gay
resolution for fanning the flames of hate in Cobb County.
Again I encourage you to write Billy Paine, the president of the Atlanta
Committee for the Olympic Games and say remember the hate of the 1972
Olympics when Jewish Olympians were killed. Tell him not to send a
message of hate again. Take the Olympics out of Cobb.
Billy Paine, Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games, POB 1996, Atlanta,
GA 30301-1996. FAX (404) 224.1997
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Below is a copy of an article from the Atlanta Journal and Counstitution
about Cobb and Hate.
Date: 16 Mar 94
Cobb County a leading center for hate
By Doug Payne
Cobb County has become a national center for hate activities ranging
from neo-Nazi skinhead and KKK recruitment to anti-semitic "revisionism,"
according to a report released today by a watchdog organization that
monitors hate groups.
Cobb's preeminence as a center of exclusionary and bigoted activity
has been encouraged by the county government's passage last year of a
resolution condemning gay lifestyles, said Neighbors Network leaders at a
news conference.
"Pandering to the politics of hatred is no different from joining a
hate group," said Walter Reeves, a network official and one of the authors
of the report, "The Shadow of Hatred."
The report, which details a history of racist organizations,
individuals and actions in Cobb County dating back to the 1915 lynching of
Leo Frank, was produced for the Cobb Citizens Coalition, a group that
opposed the 1993 anti-gay resolution and has called for it to be
rescinded.
Members of the two groups criticized the Cobb County Commission at
today's news conference and urged that the resolution be repealed.
The report traces the growth of Ku Klux Klan and skinhead activity
in Cobb and the efforts of some individuals, identified as "Pied Pipers
of Hate," to recruit teenagers into criminal and anti-social
organizations.
The report cites isolated incidents of hate group activity but
offers no statistics to back up its claim on the growth of such groups
within Cobb.
"Cobb County has become the central base for Nazi skinhead
organizing in the state. Largely unnoticed by the general public, in the
past four years Georgia's Nazi Youth movement has grown from the
level of a street gang to national influence within the movement," the
report states.
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